Case study

E-commerce headless

99.98% uptime through sales season.

Key facts

Client
Marque D2C
Role
Full-stack developer
Year
2024
Duration
5 months
Stack
Next.jsGraphQLRedisNetlify

01

Context and problem

A fast-growing D2C brand watched its e-commerce monolith buckle at every campaign: 20× traffic spikes during drops and sales, slow product pages, and a marketing team dependent on developers for the slightest update.

The problem

Every launch was a gamble: pages above four seconds, abandoned carts, and two major outages mid-campaign the previous season.

02

The solution

A migration to a headless storefront: Next.js with ISR serving product pages statically and regenerating them on demand, GraphQL federating catalogue and stock, Redis as a hot cache. Editorial content ships without a deployment.

Key features

ISR product pages

Served from the CDN and regenerated on every catalogue update.

Redis cache

Hot stock and prices without hammering the back office.

Marketing autonomy

Teams compose and preview campaign pages without a developer.

Resilient checkout

Queuing and graceful degradation to absorb the spikes.

04

Results and numbers

What the project changed, measured over time.

99.98% uptime through sales season

Two major campaigns absorbed without a single incident.

64% load time

LCP under 1.2 s on mobile thanks to ISR and the Redis cache.

+28% mobile conversion

Instant product pages that keep shoppers around.

×20 peak traffic absorbed

The architecture rides out drops without an infrastructure scramble.

Let's work together

A product to launch, a platform to harden, a team to reinforce? Let's talk.

© 2020–2026 Davy Nana — All rights reserved

--:--